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were well received by army personnel. On 3 July Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, Director, WAAC, wrote a letter to commanding generals of air forces and commands regarding the impending change to WAC and asking their assistance in seeing that Waacs were genuinely busy at necessary jobs. General H. H. Arnold, AAF Commanding General, directed that the subject of utilization of Waacs, and their job classification, be checked with special care by air inspectors. (1) In August General Arnold participated in a moving picture "short" in which he delivered a message to Air Wacs emphasizing their importance and usefulness to the AAF. This picture was shown to all Wacs at air bases before the final dissolution of the WAAC in September. The Air Inspector, with the first formal investigation of a WAAC problem in the AAF reported to him 2 July (1), asked to have WAAC officers assigned to his office and to the offices of air inspectors throughout the commands, with the result that within a few months a complete system for continuing inspection of AAF WAC personnel was established. (2)

1. AAF Memorandum 121-1, dated 3 August 1943, Special Instructions for Air Inspectors: Utilization of WAC Personnel.

1. A lady at a windswept, heat-ridden desert air base had, in a picturesque letter to an indignant civilian friend, described the scene of her army labors as a "hell hole" - and great were the reverberations therefrom. 

2. On 25 September 1943 AAF Regulation 120-12 directed that a WAC inspector be assigned to the office of Air Inspector at each echelon of AAF command, from base to AAF Headquarters level; and the following April a manual (AAF Manual 120-2, Women's Army Corps Inspection Manual, 10 April 1944) was published as a guide for the inspection of WAC units. 

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